Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.